IMIESA spoke to Kibiti Ntshumaelo, managing director of Lekwa Consulting Engineers, about the company’s amazing journey since its founding back in 2002, and the upcoming celebration of its 15th anniversary in October. How did it all start?...
August 9 is South Africa’s National Women’s Day, commemorating the 1976 Women’s March on the National Union Buildings in Pretoria. In celebration of this special day in our country’s history, ‘Water&Sanitation Africa’ magazine and the Young...
The NEC recently released the consultation draft of the new NEC4 Alliance Contract. This format is designed specifically to elicit feedback from the construction and infrastructure sectors to ensure that the contract framework meets its needs....
By Frances Okosi, Partner in the Banking & Finance Practice at Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg If the gap between the quality and quantity of Sub-Saharan Africa’s infrastructure and the infrastructure in the rest of the developing world could be...
Quantity surveyors need to embrace change and the technology it brings with it. This was the message at the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS) conference held in Midrand earlier this month. The theme of the conference, Agility,...
George Municipality has implemented emergency tariffs and tougher water restrictions as the town’s main water supply, the Garden Route Dam, dropped to 45% last week. The new Section 2C restrictions limit household consumption to 15 kilolitres per...
The Western Cape Government will ask the national Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to ‘pay back the money’ after it was forced to divert R3.5 million to conduct emergency maintenance to the Voëlvlei canals. The office of the Premier, Helen...
Nigerian entrepreneur, Chioma Ukonu, placed second at The Chivas Venture competition which took place in Los Angeles recently. She achieved this result after pitching her idea, RecyclePoints, an incentive based recycling scheme, in front of a high...
